Mo Dao Zu Shi Stories

Meeting between all three legends (part 4)

"In any case, the mess that had occurred that day honestly, wasn't without some form of reason. At the time we were low on funds, food, and medicine. I had already begun to lose my way...I was falling. And falling very hard. I had attempted to rob someone...shamefully. In a sense, the humiliation I believe was just karma..."

"Karma for trying to survive? Your highness I beg to differ," Hua Cheng says.

"Only someone like you would say that," Jiang Cheng says with a sneer.

"No I agree," all eyes turn to Wei Wuxian.

He turns to Xie Lian.

"There's no need to feel bad when you're trying to survive, and also make your parents survive too. I've lived in poverty before, so I understand how it is. Never feel bad for needing to live..."

Xie Lian is shocked by his words, and lightly chuckles.

"You both really do think alike in some ways,"

Hua Cheng and Wei Wuxian turn to each other. One grins while the other just scoffs with an eye roll.

"Heh, in any case karma or not it was still wrong. After that incident, I grew to be more colder and self secluded. White No Face...the one responsible for my kingdom's downfall...began to torment me more and more....." his eyes casted down as the images of those days played back in his head. The whispers of words in his ears. The white mask that often appeared in his vision whether sleeping or not. Every encounter leaving him more afraid and angered. Even when he is no longer a threat now, the memories will forever haunt him. Hua Cheng feels the grip of his hand tighten even more as he tried to continue in speaking.

"Gege...don't force it out. If you need a break then take it..."

He shakes his head.

"No it's alright. This is an area that needs to be told. Especially to you two.." he lifts his head to Mu Qing and Feng Xin who were already anticipating the worse.

"Feng Xin...you didn't believe me back then....and discussed with my parents about my mental health. My sanity was being toyed with by an enemy to fear, but you didn't believe me. Had you experienced what I did you would have never survived....."

"....."

"I left the home to cultivate. White no face had wounded up leading me to an old Xianle temple. Surely, nothing good was going to come  up there if he had led me there. More people began to show up as well, until atleast one hundred people had filled the temple...the doors were shut and no one could really escape. White no face released the human face disease within those doors...." his breath grew shaky as he kept talking, and his eyes were filled with a sense of dread. This was a face that Mu Qing and Feng Xin had not seen since their last major battle against Jun Wu. A face that would wither in fear into a corner. Wei Wuxian watched him with concern and wanted to say something, but instead Xie Lian continued before anyone could say anything.

"The human face disease is something terrible and came from powerful resentment ghosts that would attempt to host inside of a living persons body. The body would begin to create boils along the skin that would later appear to be human faces, faces that would cry and howl or whisper in the skin. And the only way to save yourself from this disease, is to kill another human being."

Shen Qingqiu listened attentively, and really just could not take the amount of depressing tales that were filling this atmosphere.

'Airplane shooting towards the sky, you would be sitting here crying in a flood of tears because this is just too fucking much. It seems way more hurtful than anything...' he fans his face and sits with the others in silence. He waits as does everyone else.